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From the author of The Reader, a mesmerising tale of discovery, identity and forgiveness. When...

The Essential Kafka

The Essential Kafka

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Collection includeds The Trial, The Castle, Metamorphosis and other stories. Like George Orwell,...

Austerlitz

Austerlitz

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In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with...

A Model Childhood

A Model Childhood

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In 1933, Nelly is four years old and lives in Landsberg. Nelly's family believes in Hitler's new...

The Passenger

The Passenger

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With storm troppers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann is forced to flee through the back...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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According to Primo Levi, Alone in Berlin is "the greatest book ever written about the German...

The Spoke

The Spoke

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Friedrich Glauser (1896 – 1938), often compared to Simenon, is hailed as a legendary figure in...

The Reader

The Reader

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"A fine novel, as far above a Holocaust genre as Crime and Punishment is above the average...

Why We Took The Car

Why We Took The Car

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You're the most boring boy in the class. Your mum's in rehab and your dad has taken off with a...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

Ears of wheat from below with a bright blue sky and clouds

I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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